Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

vacuum-clean

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.04 in modern English

Syllables
vac-u-um--clean
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To clean with a vacuum cleaner.

Transitive verb

Etymology

Back-formation from vacuum cleaner.

Usage

Inflected Forms

vacuum-cleans (present, singular) vacuum-cleaning (participle, present) vacuum-cleaned (participle, past) vacuum-cleaned (past)

Synonyms

hoover vacuum

Questions

What does vacuum-clean mean?
To clean with a vacuum cleaner.
Where does vacuum-clean come from?
Back-formation from vacuum cleaner.

How to pronounce vacuum-clean

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